The July Century
Date1895
Artist
Charles Herbert Woodbury
(American painter and etcher, 1864–1940)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The July Century, 1895
Les Maitres de l'Affiche 1896, plate 32
Les Affiches Étrangères, p. 138
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 17 1/2 × 10 5/16 in. (44.5 × 26.2 cm)
sheet: 19 × 11 3/4 in. (48.3 × 29.8 cm)
sheet: 19 × 11 3/4 in. (48.3 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-139
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextCharles Woodbury not only used the Japanese technique of expanses of flat color to define this image, he clarified his debt to that county by including Japanese paper lanterns dancing through the space. Woodbury trained at MIT and studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris.
